Sybil Glass and Hugo Franz Huehne

Sybil Glass and Hugo Franz Huehne

Sybil GLASS married famous architect Hugo Franz KUEHNE.Kuehne was the founding dean of the Univ. of Texas School of Architecture in Austin.Among other things he designed Austin’s Central Library, completed in 1933, is located on corner of 9th street and Guadalupe Streets.This Kuehne building now serves as home to the Austin History Center.He also designed the RITZ Theater in Austin specifically for talkies.It opened in 1929. The Ritz was originally a long narrow space, and was segregated like most movie theaters in Texas and other southern states at the time; there was a separate entrance leading to a balcony reserved for people of color.The theater showed primarily first-run westerns with a lower ticket price than any other theatre in town.It frequently brought in stars like Wild Bill Elliott and Dub Taylor, along with country music acts who performed before the movies.